NHL Should Learn From World, Allow Betting

With so many players heading for Europe during the NHL lockout, hockey fans who want to follow their favorites are scouring the Internet, checking out sports pages from across the Atlantic to find out just what is going on in all of those leagues that are actually playing games.

One headline from this weekend wasn't about hockey, but it should have reminded anyone who read it of the toughness that is so treasured on the ice. On Saturday in England, the Leeds Rhinos topped the Warrington Wolves, 26-18, to win the championship of rugby’s Super League. In the defeat, Warrington’s Paul Wood suffered a ruptured testicle as the result of a wayward knee from a Leeds player,...

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